On Bob Woodward

The Belmont Club has a good excerpt on the interview by Woodward of Rumsfeld. the comment that struck me most forcefully was this:

Woodward is more a novelist than a reporter.

He sued the authors of the book “Silent Coup” – a far more accurate work than “All the President’s Men” - because it was just that. In another of his books he supposedly interviewed CIA Chief William Casey at a time in which the man was in a deep coma. [this I remember]

His works should be labeled, at most, “Inspired by actual events.” They bear far less relationship to real history than did the TV special “The Road to 9/11” because he seeks to alter facts, ignore other data, and fabricate evidence as required to tell his preconceived story.